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Recover Undeserved Payments Florida Receives Due to its Deceptive Processing of Alimony

Created by B.B. on January 25, 2013

P.L. 103-194 requires HHS reward states; the more child support one collects the greater its subsidy

Florida conflates alimony-only with child support by not complying, as required, with federal law that defines child support as including only alimony for custodial parents

Exaggerated child support collection records are created by harassing alimony-only payers to submit payments on coupons identifying them as child support

Contractor's claim that the excess is acceptable is untrue: IRS data show it boosts collection record 41%

Census data show the excess is reported to HHS since it pays twice as much to Florida per eligible recipient, unfairly reducing compliant states' share from the subsidy fund pool

HHS has not responded to submittals exposing this situation, as GAO requested

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